People: Faculty
Matthew Ferrari
Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics; Huck Career Development Professor; Professor of Biology
Public Health, Quantitative Epidemiology, Population Ecology, Statistics, Computational and Mathematical Biology
Majid Foolad
Professor of Plant Genetics
Genetic characterization of resistance/tolerance to biotic/abiotic stresses, and genes/QTLs contributing to tomato fruit quality. Investigation of genes/QTLs for directed crop improvement and germplasm enhancement. Tomato cultivar development & release.
Daniel Foster
Associate Professor of Agricultural & Extension Education
Expanding human potential for agrifood systems transformation through educator development.
Christina Fox Call
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Plant pathology, AI, Ag Education and pedagogy & epistemology
Sagan Friant
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Evolutionary anthropology of human health, disease ecology, nutrition, socio-ecological systems, bushmeat hunting, Nigeria.
Ben Fry
Associate Teaching Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Neurobiology of learning and memory, specifically as it pertains to the circuit-specific role of dopamine in motivated behavior, pre-clinical models of schizophrenia, and the use of Pavlovian learning theory to understand the manner in which the brain processes incoming sensory information and gives rise to such phenomena as hallucinations.
Erika Ganda
Emphasis Area Representative, Microbiome Sciences; Assistant Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes
Developing practical ways to leverage the microbiome to improve food safety and improve food production animals' production efficiency.
Scott Gartner
Director, Penn State School of International Affairs; Professor of International Affairs
Lisa Gatzke-Kopp
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Developmental neuroscience of psychopathology with a focus on aggression, hyperactivity, and substance abuse; relationship between experience, environment, and neurobiological dysfunction.
David Geiser
Professor of Mycology
Genomics of fungi, applied to the evolution of plant and animal disease, toxin production, and beneficial roles. Fungal phylogenetics and population genetics, especially in Fusarium, and sequence-based identification tools. Identification of unique pathogen-specific genomic regions in pathogens, and diagnostic markers.